Grails app internationalization and localization

Grails is an open source web application framework that uses the Apache Groovy programming language (which is in turn based on the Java platform). It is intended to be a high-productivity framework by following the “coding by convention” paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the developer.

🔗Grails applications are usually translated these file formats

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🔗Best way to localize Grails apps

The first step is to extract the text to translate into language files. This process is called internationalization. The built-in libraries can be used to extract out the text to translate into Java Properties or Java XML files.

Once you have internationalized your Grails app, use a translation software localization tool such as WebTranslateIt to manage your localization workflow.

It is easy to translate a Grails app with WebTranslateIt. Create a project, upload your source language file in the File Manager and translate it on the Translation Interface.

The tools included in WebTranslateIt, such as Batch Operations, the Translation Memory or Machine Translation can help you translate that file automatically, faster and cost effectively.

🔗Links of interest

• WebTranslateIt’s CLI to help sync language files.
• Internationalization documentation page on Grails Framework
• Internationalizing Messages in Groovy Views